Nicholas Grimald Quotes

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

Nicholas Grimald

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• For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Dumb
  • Neighbor

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Liberty

• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • May
  • Gifts

• However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Man
  • Now
  • Gifts

• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Country
  • Hands

• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Point
  • Gifts
  • Shock

• One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • Dark
  • Treasure
  • Searching

• The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Want
  • Honor

• As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

  

  Valerie June
  • High
  • Try
  • Guitar

• A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Real
  • Small
  • Food

• We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

  

  Quintilian
  • Rules
  • Gifts
  • Useless

• It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Forgive
  • Gifts

• If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

  

  Idries Shah
  • Money
  • Power
  • Happy

• The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Great
  • Men
  • Faith

• The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • May
  • Reality
  • Opinion

• We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money to-to- !" Jesus said: "Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth."

  

  Eugenia Price
  • Money
  • Jesus
  • Race

• That's what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear 'em every night.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Mirror

• If you have something interesting to say, send an e-mail. Otherwise don't send anything. It's really that simple.

  

  Ben Chestnut
  • Interesting
  • Simple
  • E-mail

• God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • God
  • Smoke
  • Flame

• Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

  

  Nicholas Grimald
  • Treasure
  • Gifts
  • Mortal